Non-Intrusive Ads… for a Short While

[Bartolumiu]

We’re introducing a bit of non-intrusive advertising to help cover operational costs, working only with carefully chosen partners.
Supporters, as always, get to enjoy things ad-free.
Once our expenses are covered, the ads will take a little vacation (hopefully for a long while).

Thanks for helping us keep the lights on (and the servers happy)!



2025-10-05: We didn't expect the ad banners to get displayed the way they did (they're comically big due to us testing with smaller placeholder banners), and we're working on a rework to make the ads be less annoying in general.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Español:

Vamos a introducir algo de publicidad discreta y (a poder ser) lo menos intrusiva posible para ayudar a cubrir los costes de funcionamiento, trabajando únicamente con socios cuidadosamente seleccionados.
Quienes nos apoyan, como siempre, podrán disfrutar de todo sin anuncios.
Una vez cubiertos nuestros gastos, los anuncios se tomarán unas (esperemos que largas) vacaciones.
¡Gracias por ayudarnos a mantener esto en marcha (y a los servidores contentos)!

 

[hazzack]

didn't we once had this conversation and only ended up with that shitty chinese game(?) (emphasis on question mark)

 

[Madologist]

didn't we once had this conversation and only ended up with that shitty chinese game(?) (emphasis on question mark)

Solution: buy all the ad space. Make it just ducks.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Solution: buy all the ad space. Make it just ducks.

That'd be a win-win situation tbf... Users don't see actual ads (they'd see cute ducks) and MD survives for another day

 

[hhenrikh]

As long as the ad is NOT redirecting me to another website (when I don't even click on it/just by clicking on the BASE website) and starts downloading 'something' in the background, im fine with anything.

 

[Bartolumiu]

As long as the ad is not redirecting me to another website (when I don't even click on it/just by clicking on the BASE website) and starts downloading 'something' in the background, im fine with anything.

Don't worry, they won't be neither popups nor popunders (the ones you mentioned)

 

[HDMI1]

Speaking of supporters, the Supporter tag disappeared from my roles. Did the qualifications for that change? I haven't signed up for support through NamiComi, but I did donate during the Bitcoin days.

 

[trenslime]

"Our goals are:

1. Keeping a great reading experience ad-free"

I suppose that's going real well and true to policy.

 

[ediefalcopuppyalt]

Are you guys gonna make a custom ad service or are you guys gonna use google ads or something

 

[Madologist]

"Our goals are:

1. Keeping a great reading experience ad-free"

I suppose that's going real well and true to policy.

If there are no ads on the reader side of things, it still applies.
No mention of ad free browsing, yes?

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

raid shadow legends?

 

[IdanaHamz]

I genuinely can't understand this way of doing things... Opening up donations then quickly closing it, only to be scrambling for money in a few months. Constantly changing the method of gathering funds. Why not keep the donation open indefinitely?

 

[Greenfrost]

I miss when @Plykiya did the announcements with a Hallo Hallo start.

 

[Nolonar]

Of all the spots you could have chosen for non-intrusive ads, you chose to limit my screen real-estate? I know there's no other choice on mobile, but there's so much empty space to the left and right on desktop. Why not use that instead?

PS: Speaking of "non-intrusive", your support banner is incredibly intrusive. In addition to further limiting my screen real-estate, it also blocks interaction with anything to its left and right. All that surface area I colored in transparent red is unclickable until the modal is closed. That's the opposite of non-intrusive. Please fix that.

 

[Manko-sensei]

We're back to the last resource again, after the trial years ago I hoped they wouldn't need to actually put it on practice. At least make them funny as April Fools' ones, you know many are asking for some specific ones:

 

[Tony_Mushah]

Of all the spots you could have chosen for non-intrusive ads, you chose to limit my screen real-estate? I know there's no other choice on mobile, but there's so much empty space to the left and right on desktop. Why not use that instead?

Not everyone is reading mangadex in an ultra-wide monitor...

 

[Bartolumiu]

Speaking of supporters, the Supporter tag disappeared from my roles. Did the qualifications for that change? I haven't signed up for support through NamiComi, but I did donate during the Bitcoin days.

Seems to be related to the reason of the ads, because I couldn't subscribe to a self-published author's NamiComi org due to errors with the payment provider... (just speculation, not an official statement)
I just wanted to give 2€/month to "Facets" since the art is just too cute... (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

 

[HDMI1]

I genuinely can't understand this way of doing things... Opening up donations then quickly closing it, only to be scrambling for money in a few months. Constantly changing the method of gathering funds. Why not keep the donation open indefinitely?

Don't want to give companies a better legal reason to shut the place down, like MangaDex is running this site for cash and not for the love of the game.

 

[Madologist]

Well whatever may come, just like any site that asks me to turn off adblockers or enable scripts.
My answer stays the same, regardless do I like/support the site: